Good Slytherin (Was: Re: Thestrals and Slytherins)

[bibphile]

No: HPFGUIDX 71222

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone"
> <greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I think the elimination of just Slytherin house would be a bad 
> > > thing. ...
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > That was a bad thing? I think you are forgetting that Slytherin 
had 
> > plans to purge the school of non-purebloods with the Basilisk 
and 
> > also that he was heavily responsible for all that crap about 
> > purebloods being better than the rest
> > 
> > "greatelderone"
 

I'm going by what the hat said:

"Never since the founders four were whittled down to three have the 
houses been united as they were meant to be."

Besides, like bboy_mn said, we don't know that Salazar would condone 
what Riddle did.  Sazalar left the Basalisk, but he didn't set it 
loose.  I think he probably meant it as a weapon to be used only if 
the muggle-borns proved as un-trustworthy as he feared them to be.  

Of course, if that had happened, many innocent muggle-borns would 
have been killed along with the guilty.  That kind of thing has 
happed a lot in history.  How many times have two countries gone to 
war and suddenly each one considers every citizen of opposing 
country as an enemy, instead of just the soilders?  What Salazar did 
is still very wrong.  However, it's not quite on the same level as 
just up and killing all the muggle-borns one day with no provication.


> As far as the houses, I think even if the house system is 
abolished,
> the school will still retain the house designations, they will 
simply
> stop sorting the students by personality.
> 
> Even today, English school use the house system, but it more 
resembles
> the USA college dormitory system. In the USA, 'dormitory' 
frequently
> refers to the building in which students reside as well as the 
rooms
> themselves. In the US, dormitory and residents hall are
> interchangable. (note: in Britain, 'dormitory' only refers to a 
single
> room)
> 
> The school has a certain number of students to house, and they have
> four locations to house them in. I speculate that, in a sense,
> Slytherin House would become Slytherin Student Residents Hall. 
> 
> Residents halls are always named after school, state, or national
> historical figures, and I think that having over 1,000 years of
> history behind them would make the school reluctant to lose the 
use of
> the names of the four founders. So, once again, personality related
> houses would simply become named residences halls in which students
> are placed based on a uniform random distribution of student into
> housing based on residence hall capacity.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> bboy_mn

If they did that, I think it could eliminate many of the problems 
with the current system.  The only reason I lean against it is the 
hat's song.

I do believe though, that the current personality sorting system 
does more harm than good for the students.

bibphile